Puerto Rico’s Power Struggles

Puerto Rico’s power struggles

The island is staring down a dirtier, and potentially darker, future — with little say over what happens.

A Potentially Politically Hot Summer in Puerto Rico

For today I have been asked to speak a bit about my country, Puerto Rico, and the socioeconomic crisis that is currently developing there.1 Given the time constraints, I want to provide you with a brief overview of what is being experienced there by the victims of the crisis. I want to also speak a […]

Puerto Rico’s Power Struggles | MIT Technology Review - Data Intelligence

By 2016, Puerto Rico could no longer afford to pay its bills. Since the law that gave the US jurisdiction over nonstate territories made Puerto Rico a “possession” of Congress, it fell on the federal legislature—in which the island’s elected delegate had no vote—to decide what to do. Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act—shortened to PROMESA, or “promise” in Spanish. It established a fiscal control boa…

Crime and the City: Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico – out there in the Caribbean, 1,000 miles off the coast of Florida and with a population of over three million people. The capital of San Juan sits on the island’s Atlantic coast. Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1917 and so a healthy and widespread diaspora has emerged in the USA. Unfortunately Puerto Rico has a pretty high crime rate, even by US standards – 19.2 per 100,000 inhabitants with 80% of murders being drugs-relat…